Tehillim 78:44

44 And had turned their rivers into dahm; and their streams, that they could not drink.

Tehillim 78:44 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:44

And had turned their rivers into blood
The river Nile and its seven streams; this was the first of the plagues of Egypt, ( Exodus 7:20 Exodus 7:21 ) , and was a just retaliation for drowning the infants of the Israelites in their river, ( Exodus 1:22 ) , a like plague will be inflicted on spiritual Egypt, and with equal justice; see ( Revelation 11:8 ) ( 16:3-7 ) ,

and their floods, that they could not drink;
the rivulets that flowed from the Nile, and every spring or confluence of water; or rather by these rivers and floods are meant the canals and ditches, which, as Jarchi ^F5 observes, were made by the hands of men, from the banks of the river Nile, to water their fields with.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Comment. on Exod. vii. 19. so Kimchi in Sepher Shorash. rad. (ra) .

Tehillim 78:44 In-Context

42 They remembered not His Yad (Hand, Power), nor the yom (day) when He redeemed them from the enemy.

43 How He had wrought His otot in Mitzrayim, and His mofetim in the area of Tzoan.

44 And had turned their rivers into dahm; and their streams, that they could not drink.

45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them; and tzfarde’a (frogs), which destroyed them.

46 He gave also their crop unto the grasshopper, and their produce unto the arbeh (locust).